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Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man For Rent
Chicken SelfPortrait of a Young Man For Rent
Author: David Henry Sterry
I walk all the way up Hollywood Boulevard to Grauman's Chinese Theatre: past tourists snapping shots; wannabe starlets sparkling by in miniskirts with head shots in their hands and moondust in their eyes; rowdy cowboys drinking with drunken Indians; black businessmen bustling by briskly in crisp suits; ladies who do not lunch with nylons rolled ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781593765279
ISBN-10: 1593765274
Publication Date: 10/8/2013
Pages: 256
Edition: Tenth Anniversary Ed
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Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Oh my gosh....this is somewhat reminsicent of Strip City +/- Running With Scissors. It is about a 17 year old man who comes to Los Angeles, then finds out he has no place to live. He gets a job as a male prostitute (call boy?) and the book is his memoir of this time. Can be VERY graffic....violent, and sad. But another example of things that are going on in this world while we blissfully wear our blinders.....
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